Google has expanded the list of manual actions to include a few points for Google News and Google Discover. Manual actions are penalties imposed by Google employees when websites do not comply with Google's webmaster guidelines. Until now, Google only applied manual actions for violations of the web search guidelines. Now the help document for manual actions also lists violations for Google News and Google Discover. Anyone who publishes harassing, hateful or manipulative content there can expect to be punished in the future.
Comments can be relevant for search queries because they are part of the content of a website. In the Google Search Central SEO Office Hours last week, John Müller explained that although Google treats comments a little differently than the rest of the content of a website, they still consider them to be important content. Therefore, they should rcs data greece not simply be removed, for example in the course of a website migration. Before deleting comments, Müller advises looking at the content and search queries of the website. This way you can determine whether websites are found because of the content in the comments. These search queries would disappear after the comments were removed. Depending on the type and quantity of comments, they can represent an important part of the website and add value for users. Comments can be used specifically to bind users and build a community. Google also takes the additional content into account in the ranking.
The Canadian company Uniregistry secured numerous promising-sounding generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in 2014 and 2015. Some of these end in general terms such as .games, .hosting, .help. or .link, but there are also more specific domains such as .tattoo, .property or .diet. A year ago, Uniregistry was taken over by Godaddy and has now surprised everyone with the news that 23 gTLDs are for sale. An auction is running until April 28, 2021, where interested parties can bid on the domains - sometimes without a starting bid. The fact that the gTLDs are now being offered at a bargain price could have something to do with the takeover or with the lack of a boom in the new namespaces